we'll go back to the strong life podcast this is your host zach evanesh the date of this recording

is june 25th it's the year 2024 and if you guys missed out a week or two ago i did my strength

anniversary sale which people are like what the heck is that my strength

training anniversary sale is where I celebrate when I started strength training

I really I almost wouldn't call it strength training you know it was more like

my bodybuilding introduction to bodybuilding and that began in the middle of June

1989 and I remember it was about two weeks before eighth grade ended.

So more like early June.

So 1989, 2024.

I think that's 35 years of strength training.

And yes, getting under the bar.

First time I lifted weights that day was leg day and i remember

doing squats where i had to clean and press my joe weeder barbell overhead and get it on my back

we had these chrome spin lock weights i wish i could remember what we purchased them for. It was a long time ago,

but I actually went with my brother to an old sporting goods store in Menlo Park Mall. It was called

Hermans. We both wore our backpacks and drove across Route 1, which was like Cardinal Sin number 1 back then.

We were so scared to cross the highway, so worried that somebody in the neighborhood would see

us, tell our parents, and then it was like, dang, we're going to, they're going to end our life

seeing us.

And there was a story of somebody actually getting killed trying to cross Route 1,

getting hit by cars.

And so lots of crazy stuff was running through my mind.

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